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Bunnell, Peter W.; Yocum, Russell; Koyzis, Anthony; Strohmyer, Karin – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2018
Biblical texts mandate parental involvement in children's religious education. Researchers consider it important as well. Through analysis of interviews, site documents, and a focus group this phenomenological study seeks to provide a rich description of parents' experience with involvement in the religious education of their elementary children.…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Religious Education, Phenomenology, Elementary School Students
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Halldórsdóttir Gudjonsson, Brynja Elisabeth – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This article focuses on multiracial student experiences using co-created ethnographic data with two students' spoken word poetry. The students considered their own history, their origins and discovered a complexity--and found that their struggle was not exclusively internal. External expectations of singular categorizations and social…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Ethnography, Poetry, Background
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Üzüm, Hanifi; Karli, Ünal; Yildiz, Nuh Osman – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of the study was to develop a scale, which will serve to determine how attitudes and behaviors of the coaches are perceived by the athletes. The scale, named as "Perceived Coach Attitudes and Behaviors Scale" (PCABS) was developed through various processes including exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Following the…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Attitudes, Behavior, Measures (Individuals)
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Linker, Jenny Mae; Woods, Amelia Mays – Physical Educator, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice elementary classroom teachers' (PCTs) beliefs about physical education and their willingness to incorporate physical activity as they progressed through an undergraduate physical education methods course. This course focused on quality physical education as well as the classroom teacher's role in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Physical Activities
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Bradbury, Alice – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
This article examines the impact of a statutory assessment in England, the Phonics Screening Check (PSC), on classroom practices of grouping children by 'ability.' Bearing in mind the argument that assessment is the rudder that steers the otherwise slow-moving battleship of educational practice, it is argued that the PSC has altered how teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, Screening Tests, Elementary School Students
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Musita, Richard; Ogange, Betty O.; Lugendo, Dorine – Distance Education, 2018
The Kenyan education system has very limited re-entry options for learners who drop out before attaining secondary school certificate. It is very difficult to access training and or secure a job that requires at least secondary school education. This study examined the prospects of initiating Open and Distance e-Learning(ODeL) in re-entry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reentry Students, Dropouts
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Casanova, Diogo; Di Napoli, Roberto; Leijon, Marie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
To date, learning spaces in higher education have been designed with little engagement on the part of their most important users: students and teachers. In this paper, we present the results of research carried out in a UK university. The research aimed to understand how students and teachers conceptualise learning spaces when they are given the…
Descriptors: Space Utilization, Higher Education, Educational Environment, Classroom Design
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Nkoma, Elliott – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
The study used focus group interviews at three administrative offices (provinces) that house trainee/educational psychologists in order to explore their experiences on how they learn about their support roles and responsibilities regarding the implementation of inclusive education. 13 trainee/educational psychologists from these provinces…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Focus Groups, Psychologists, Educational Psychology
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Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn; Karikari, Isaac; Chen, Haiping; Wilka, Eric; Kim, Jangmin – Educational Studies, 2015
There is no shortage of definitions for truancy. One state may house many different definitions and there are a variety of challenges arising from this fact. One of the most important to researchers, policy-makers and educators alike, is that because of the lack of uniformity and consistency, it is difficult to compile and ascertain the totality…
Descriptors: Truancy, Definitions, Focus Groups, Literature Reviews
Adams, Gina; Katz, Michael – Urban Institute, 2015
This report summarizes findings from a review of Massachusetts' child care subsidy eligibility policies and implementation practices. The review included interviews and focus groups with approximately 60 experts and stakeholders with a broad range of perspectives on the system. It identifies several important issues that, if addressed, could…
Descriptors: Child Care, Grants, State Aid, Eligibility
Alkhafaji, Alaa; Fallahkhair, Sanaz; Cocea, Mihaela – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
Informal learning allows learners to be in charge of their own learning process instead of being a content consumer. Harnessing mobile technology in informal learning field could help learners in taking a learning opportunity whenever they need either individually or in a group. This paper presents a small-scale study to investigate how people may…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Cultural Background
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Brown, Onikia; Morse, Wayde; Carter, Mitch – Journal of Extension, 2020
With an adult obesity rate of 35.6%, Alabama is the second most obese state in the United States. Alabama Extension and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined in the first collaboration between the CDC and land-grant institutions to prevent further incidence and reduce the prevalence of obesity. The objective of our study was…
Descriptors: Obesity, Rural Areas, Adults, Public Health
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Beltramo, John Luciano – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2020
This investigation explores the critical reflection of two urban high school science teachers as they participate in cogenerative dialogues--weekly discussions with focus groups of students that are held outside of instructional hours and that center on identifying and addressing problem areas of classroom teaching and learning. The study finds…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Reflective Teaching, Dialogs (Language), Urban Schools
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Kim, Hyein Amber – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2016
This study examines two cases of Black-Korean biracial individuals and 4 Black-Korean biracial public figures who were playing influential roles in South Korea (Yoon Mi-Rae, Hines Ward, Insooni, and Moon Taejong). The purpose of this study was to understand how Black-Korean biracial individuals construct their identities, how they navigate various…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Racial Identification, Social Influences, Racial Bias
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Weiber, Ingrid; Eklund, Mona; Tengland, Per-Anders – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Background: There might be a need for support for families where the mother has an intellectual disability, in order to counteract the effects of potential parental inadequacy and other detrimental aspects of the family situation. The purpose of this study was to describe how professionals characterized such support and the collaboration required.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parents with Disabilities, Social Support Groups, Professional Personnel
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